Sekirov Dictionary

clog

UK /klɒɡ/US /klɑɡ/

noun 5
verb 5
forms 3
phrases 1

noun5

•
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
•
(UK, informal) A shoe of any type.
- I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs. — 1987
•
A blockage.
- The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
•
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- Yet as a Dog committed close / For some offence, by chance breaks loose, / And quits his Clog; but all in vain, / He still draws after him his Chain. — 1663
•
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
- The grand Conspirator, Abbot of Westminster, / With clog of Conscience, and sowre Melancholly / Hath yeelded up his body to the graue — 1595

verb5

•
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
- The roads are clogged up with traffic.
•
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow. — 1717
•
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- The commodities […]are clogged with impositions. — 1705
To perform a clog dance.
To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.

forms

clogged · clogging · clogs

Phrases with clog

clog up
To block something completely and physically.

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